Day 1 of €3,000 EPT Mystery Bounty Gets Underway at 2 PM
The 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona here at the Casino Barcelona continues today with the €3,000 Mystery Bounty; Day 1 of this three-day event kicks off this afternoon at 2 p.m local time.
In 2023, it was Ricardo De Andrade who emerged victorious after besting a field of 1,339 players. De Andrade laid claim to the lion's share of the €2,297,724 prize pool, taking home €374,064 for the first-place prize.
2023’s Final Table Payouts
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ricardo De Andrade | Portugal | €374,064 |
| 2 | Armin Rezaei | Austria | €233,890 |
| 3 | Yaman Nakdali | Spain | €167,040 |
| 4 | Marcos Kenne | Brazil | €128,510 |
| 5 | Frederic Breton | Canada | €98,850 |
| 6 | Mikel Unanue | Mexico | €76,030 |
| 7 | Jan Bronkhorst | Netherlands | €58,480 |
| 8 | Vladislav Solovev | Russia | €44,990 |
| 9 | Ismet Oral | Turkey | €34,600 |
This is the second Mystery Bounty tournament to take place at EPT Barcelona, with Boris Angelov taking down the €10,200 Mystery Bounty last week. Angelov triumphed over Ren Lin in heads-up play to claim the €110,400 up top and a further €75,000 in additional bounties.
Late registration will be open until the beginning of Day 2, which kicks off on Thursday, September 5 at 12:30 p.m. On Level 15 of Day 2, the mystery bounties will come into play. Of the total entry fee, €1,000 will be put into the bounty prize pool which will generate prizes that will be confirmed once the prize pool is finalised.
Anyone who enters the Mystery Bounty will receive a starting stack of 30,000. The plan for Day 1 is to play 12 40-minute levels and while the registration period is open, players are allowed unlimited reentries.
As always, be sure to keep it locked in with PokerNews to keep up with all the action from this exciting event.